I love to collect vintage cards, tags and other paper goods that I find at flea markets, tag sales and antique stores.  I tend to buy the inexpensive ones and often look through them to get inspired.  For the  May issue of Living I was asked to develop a project that was inspired by a …

Have you seen this month’s Living yet?  Here’s a sneak peek into the photo shoot from May Good Things (a lot of hard work goes into these shoots, but we still manage to have fun…

You may remember when our colleague Kristin received an unusual and extremely thoughtful Christmas gift from her boyfriend: a collection of friends’ artistic interpretations of her pet bird, Pico. Here at work, we’re no strangers to how obsessed this girl is with her bird, so for Kristin’s April birthday, we coworkers figured there was no …

Now that Easter is behind us I thought I’d share with you a project that didn’t quite cut the mustard. I started out with good intentions of making a bunny from recycled materials and household items. The template I designed for the bunny’s skeletal structure came along smoothly. After I assembled the pieces together, I …

Now that easter has come and gone, I’m posting about one more crafts story in the April issue, The Art of pressing Plants. This was such a fascinating story to develop. The idea we started with was simple: explore the traditional technique of botanical pressing, but on a much larger scale, then come up with …

Two weeks ago, Marcie and I went to the City of Brotherly Love to tape a segment for “talk philly,” a daily lifestyle TV program starring local legend Pat Ciarrocchi. Marcie shared tips for Easter-themed projects:  layered candy jars, embellished paper baskets, and papier mache eggs. Here are some pictures – courtesy of our friend …

Check out some behind the scenes photos of The Crafts Dept. setting up for tonight’s Stitch Fest…

This month’s issue of Living features new easter egg dyeing projects in the story Design by the Dozen, which I worked on with Nick and Jeffrey Kurtz, an Art Director here at the magazine. ( in fact, the eggs featured above in this month’s blog header were made for this story.) Our idea was to …